Using construction tech to enhance processes on-site.
Planning is an area ripe with value and opportunity, just as geospatial policy is another.If someone is digging a hole with a pickaxe and finds a pipe, it creates risk for all sorts of domains.
We need to share information more efficiently in order to keep people safer at work, cause less disruption to the local economy by digging up roads, and provide better utility services.. What is a digital twin?.That said, when we talk about digital twins, we might not always be referring to the same thing.To some people the term ‘digital twin’ implies a highly advanced, digital replication of an aircraft engine, while others imagine a real time digital model of an entire city.
But that latter level of sophistication isn’t required, or even necessarily advisable.A digital twin of a city would be too expensive to store and use, and it would also be immediately out-of-date.
We need to keep things simple as we work out how to achieve our goals, and the meaning of digital twin is simply a digital representation of a real thing.. Now, by real, we don’t necessarily mean physical.
Sharp explains that the digital representation of a train timetable is just as important as the digital representation of a train itself, each providing important, but different, information.. Further, when we use digital twin technology there should always be a two-way interaction between the digital twin and the real thing.This is a link which rarely exists in construction, where there are typically numerous tiers between the client and manufacturers, introducing enormous economic ‘friction’ and transactional cost.
Manufacturers are pre-qualified to relevant standards (such as ISO 9001, but also to specialist medical, aerospace and defence standards including ISO 13485, AS 9100, NADCAP and ITAR).This would overcome concerns regarding the perceived risk of standardised components and product recall.
In a Platform marketplace, manufacturers would have to demonstrate their CQP process, ensuring performance of components meets the precise brief established by the ‘spatial analysis’ work.It allows for both simple, standard elements but also prototypes and more complex designs.
(Editor: Simple Raincoats)